Category: 3. Academia
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The economics of financing Ph.D. students as company contractors
Occasionally companies approach me with the following proposal: If I’m willing to supervise one of their employees for an external Ph.D. thesis, they’ll pay into my University budget an annual lump sum, typically something like EUR 10000. I almost always reject such proposals, unless I can change some of the critical terms, because these proposals…
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Research, teaching, and startup concept of my professorship (in German)
Over on my research group’s blog at Friedrich-Alexander University I finished summarizing the underlying concepts for the three cornerstones of my professorship: The research concept The teaching concept The start-up concept I wrote it in German, as this is reaches the target group best; as always, Google Translate is your friend, and if you are…
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Four months of open source professorship
2009 is coming to an end and so are my first four months as a professor. Time to take stock, if only shortly. The Open Source Research group posted a year-end summary for its first months There is initial sponsorship by Red Hat and Novell, demonstrating industry interest There was a fair amount of press…
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Busy at the open source research group
We had a busy first week over at the website of the Open Source Research Group: Fun! And don’t be shy, take a look!